Re: remote configuration sources

[Bob Smith <bob thestuff net>]

If I remember correctly (2 year old knowlege), what acap was addressing
there was the inability to add schema information on the fly through the
LDAP protocol. This would not be a problem for common things like
bookmarks and addressbooks. You can easily add any data you want provided
there is a data type already defined which is a simple copy of the schema
file into a directory if I remember correctly.

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Kenneth Lierman Jr. wrote:

> > I think the core gconf
> > people need to deside what constitutes configuration data and what
> > constitutes user data, and if both should be supported in gconf. If you
> > want both, my suggestion is to look over LDAP closly and see if it would
> > suit your needs (I think it would), find a server that would work (I dont
> > know any easy to install ones so one might need to be created) and go from
> > there.
> >
>
> i would agree that in general the core gconf people need to make that
> decision.
>
> I did just see an acap doc that compared it to a bunch of existing
> protocols.... and ldap was included.  There was a bunch of overlap, but
> their primary beef with ldap was that it's all administrator setup, so
> clients can't really add/modify data, which is obviously important for the
> applications i was talking about.  Do a search for acap-vs-others.html and
> you should find that document....
>
> Ken
>
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